Alice in Wonderland - The 1984 Japanese anime series

Alice in Wonderland - The 1984 Japanese anime series

Alice in Wonderland (Japanese original title "ふ し ぎ の 国 の ア リ ス, Fushigi no Kuni no Arisu") is a Japanese animated series (anime) based on the novel by Lewis Carroll of 1865 "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", Broadcast on TV Tokyo starting from March 26, 1983 to October 10, 1984. In Italy it was broadcast starting from 1986 on Italia 1 within the transmission Boom Boom Boom. The series is a Japanese-German co-production between Nippon Animation, Tokyo TV Osaka's affiliate station, and Apollo Films. The series consists of 52 episodes lasting 22 minutes.

History

As in the famous novel, the story tells of the young girl named Alice who follows a White Rabbit inside a hole, and finds herself in Wonderland, where she meets many interesting characters, including the mysterious Cheshire Cat and the terrible Queen of Hearts.

The beginning of the series adheres more closely to the original novel, while in subsequent episodes, a starting from episode 26, we find the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland , Alice Through the looking glass , .

One difference from the books is where Alice returns to the real world at the end of each episode and returns to Wonderland at the beginning of the next episode. These transitions between the two worlds are represented as a dream, and usually Alice notices how the environment around her has changed.

The theme song for Alice in Wonderland

Like many cartoons of the 80s , Alice in Wonderland is been treated with credits that remain anchored in the memory of a generation. 

The theme song of the animated series "Alice in Wonderland" is the thirty-fourth single of the Italian singer Cristina D'Avena published in 1987 and distributed by CGD Messaggerie Musicali SpA. The song written by Alessandra Valeri Manera on music and arrangement by Giordano Bruno Martelli.

The music was composed by the German composer Christian bruhn for the German version of the co-production. In France, a first version of the credits was sung by a little girl, Stephanie Barre , under the pseudonym of Alice. For Quebec, the cartoon was entitled to a version of the credits sung by Mireille Labbe on the same music with different lyrics, which was also used in France during its retransmission on The Cinq at the end of the years. 1980. The same music was used for the closing credits in English. On the other hand, the Japanese version has different credits and background music, composed by Reijirō Koroku.

Technical data

Title: Alice in Wonderland
Original title: Alice in Wonderland
(Fushigi no Kuni no Alice)
Gender adventure, fantasy
Author Lewis Carroll
Regia Shigeo Koshi, Taku Sugiyama
Character design Kazuko Nakamura
Music Reijiro Kuroku
Production Nippon Animation Studio, Apollo Film
Data 1st TV 10 October 1983 - 24 September 1984
Episodes 52
Transmission in Italy: Italy 1 1986